Iran editor gets 9-year jail term over vote unrest

          
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          December 2, 2009, 5:13 pm
          TEHRAN (Reuters) - A news paper editor and well-known critic of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been sentenced
          to nine years in jail forfomenting unrestafterJune's disputed elections, his lawyersaid on Wednesday.
          Saeed Laylaz, whose daily paper Sarmayeh was banned last month, was found guilty of taking part in illegal gatherings and
          holding classified information, Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaie was quoted on the semi-official Fars news agencyas saying.
          “Iwas informed abouttheverdictverbally, butas soon as Ireceivetheformalwriftenverdictwewill have20 daysto appeal,”
          Aizadeh-Tabatabaie said.
          Iran, locked in dispute with world powers over its nuclearenergyprogramme, has staged several trials over protests afterthe
          June presidential election that returned Ahmadinejad to power. Five people have been sentenced to death.
          The poll plunged Iran into its most serious internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exposing deep divisions in its ruling
          elite and further straining ties with the West
          Anotherjournalist, Hengameh Shahidi, who is also an ad'Aserto defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi, has been
          sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in jail, Karoubi's webs ite Tag heer said on Monday.
          She was found guiltyof acting against national security, disturbing public order, creating and leading street riots and doing
          interviews with “anti-revolution” British news outlet the BBC, the webs ite said.
          Shahpour Kazemi, brother-in-law of another defeated presidential candidate and opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, was
          sentenced to one year in jail, opposition webs ites reported this week.
          Both verdicts are subject to appeal.
          Analysts regard the trials as an attempt bythe authorities to uprootthe moderate opposition and put an end to mass protests
          such as those that erupted afterthe election.
          (Reporting by Reza Derakhshi; Writing byAndrew Hammond)
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